"Catatonias (Turner)": In December of 2021, I was asked by Mike Maradan to contribute a one minute silent movie to contribute to his ongoing "Sync'd" series.  This series solicits movies & then has musicians make the soundtrack for it.  "Catatonias" is the 4th movie I've made for Mike.  All 4 of my movies for Sync'd have been what I call "Score Movies", movies intended to be the score for the production of their soundtrack.  For "Catatonias" I specified that Mike wd probably have to have classically trained musicians who play avant-garde repertoire.  I offered to try to find them if Mike didn't know anyone appropriate.  Mike rejected the movie saying something to the effect that he didn't think he'd be able to do what I wanted.  I put the silent movie online & notified the 160 people on my (M)Usic email list about its existence.  A few people replied essentially telling me that they, personally, wdn't be able to perform such a thing.  The general feeling seemed to be that it was 'impossible'.  I then wrote an article called "Existing Outside the Box" that I posted on Medium that partially addressed why it IS possible.  Then, on March 1, I made a movie of me demonstrating how I'd personally perform it & put that movie online w/ the realization edited in near the end.  Once again, I informed people on my (M)Usic list (& 1 other email list) about this demonstration.  My friend Adam Welch then made a realization of "Catatonias" on March 4, 2022, which I made the movie version of & put online - continuing my notification process as usual.  NOW, on March 8, 2022, my friend Dick Turner has made this notated orchestral version with the countdown (decrescendo) turned into a countup (not quite a crescendo) & I've remade the original Score Movie to match his progression.  Coincidentally, 2 friends of mine wrote me suggesting just such a reversal.  Dick's audio realization of this is made possible by the MuseScore app.  I'm delighted with Dick's realization partially because I'd been thinking about how fun it would be to make a new realization for non-piano sounds &, then, VOILA!, Dick made this!!  It's fascinating to me how quickly this simple piece went from being 'impossible' to now having THREE realizations.  I welcome more realizations & will be happy to continue uploading them to YouTube & the Internet Archive. - March 8, 2022 notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE 

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